Matthias Baumann

Biographic Data

ID3584499
NAMEMatthias Baumann
GIVEN NAMESMatthias
FAMILY NAMEBaumann
SIGNATUREBAUMANN M
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
ORCID0000-0003-2375-3622
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS183
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Mapping the geography of livestock systems in South America’s dry diagonal

    Open AccessJamie Burton, Pedro David Fernández et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026

    Identified and mapped eleven livestock systems across South America’s Dry Diagonal. • Evidence of adaptive capacity yet marginalization of pastoralists and smallholders. • Capitalized ranching dominates the productive regions of the Cerrado and Chaco. • Replicable method to map diverse livestock systems using untapped datasets. Livestock production is a major driver of global environmental change, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and biod…

  • Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought

    Open AccessMatthias Baumann, Oswaldo Maillard et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026References: 3

    Fire is a key process in tropical dry woodlands and savannahs, shaping their vegetation and ecological functioning. Yet, fires in these systems are increasingly a major sustainability concern, causing carbon emissions, biodiversity losses and human health impacts. Land-use change can lead to fewer fires (for example, through fire suppression) or more fires (for example, fires used for pasture management or land clearing), and climate change ampli…

  • Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia

    Open AccessArash Ghoddousi, Juliana Eggers et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026Cited by: 1References: 50

    Fostering coexistence between people and wildlife requires understanding their interactions and how they might change in the future. Climate change potentially impacts coexistence by exacerbating resource scarcity, shifting land-use patterns or changing human–wildlife encounters. Assessing challenges and opportunities for coexistence under climate change is, therefore, a conservation priority. We focused on the Central Asian highlands to investig…

  • Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts of socio‐economic shocks on large carnivores

    Open AccessRanjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Large carnivores are ecologically, economically and socially important, but they are also among the most threatened species worldwide. These species face numerous threats, most importantly habitat transformation, prey depletion and hunting. All of these threats could be exacerbated by socio‐economic shocks—such as financial crises, wars, pandemics or political regime shifts—that can cause sudden and structural changes in social‐ecological systems…

  • Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning

    Open AccessMarie Pratzer, Oswaldo Maillard et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Current Biology, AJHG, and the Trends Journals

  • Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis in Tyrol, Austria: Epidemiology, Clinical Profile and Treatment Patterns from a Single Center (2015–2024)

    Open AccessChristian Lechner, Christopher Schoedl et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    This first regional analysis of pediatric-onset MS in Austria demonstrates a higher incidence than most previously reported European cohorts, positioning Tyrol within the upper European range. The findings highlight the impact of early recognition, structured diagnostics, and timely initiation of disease-modifying therapy on favorable short-term outcomes

  • Improving the estimation of grazing pressure in tropical rangelands

    Open AccessPedro David Fernández, Matthias Baumann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Livestock grazing is a key land use globally, with major environmental impacts, yet the spatial footprint of grazing remains elusive, particularly at broad scales. Here, we combine livestock system indicators based on remote sensing and livestock vaccination data with a biophysical grass growth model to assess forage production, livestock carrying capacity, and grazing pressure on rangelands in the South American Dry Chaco. Specifically, we asses…

  • Uncovering patterns of cattle intensification across South America’s dry diagonal

    Open AccessTobias Kuemmerle, Pedro David Fernández et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Where cattle production expands into natural ecosystems, it typically leads to stark social–ecological impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity losses, and ecosystem degradation. This is particularly the case in South America’s tropical forests and savannas, where much hope is placed in intensifying cattle production instead of further expanding it. Yet, where such an intensification is already happening and how it is associated …

  • Attributing deforestation-driven biodiversity decline in the Gran Chaco to agricultural commodity supply chains

    Open AccessIrvin Watson Carpenter, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2025References: 8

    Pasture expansion had a greater biodiversity impact than cropland expansion. • Biodiversity decline from consumption depended on location and quantity of volumes. • Domestic consumption risked driving greater biodiversity decline. • Differing results based on facet of biodiversity considered. Agricultural expansion is one of the principal drivers of biodiversity loss globally. Attributing biodiversity loss to domestically consumed versus internat…

  • Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot

    Open AccessMelina Faingerch, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Given increasing recognition that strategies to transition to sustainable land use should be context specific, structuring the diversity of land-use agents is important. This is particularly so for the world’s tropical deforestation frontiers, where rapid land-use change, driven by diverse agents, leads to stark social-ecological trade-offs. Focusing on the Argentinean Dry Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot, we employed archetyping to identify…

  • Troubled waters at the frontier: Mapping forest-dependent people's access to surface water in the Dry Chaco

    Open AccessPatrice Soraya Matthews, Matthias Baumann et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024

    We analyzed changing access to surface water for smallholders in the Dry Chaco. • The most useful types of surface water for local livelihoods were the rarest. • Agricultural expansion worsened access to all surface water types. • Access to the most useful surface water decreased slightly more than to other types. • Disappearance of human settlements correlated with reduced access

  • Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America

    Open AccessSiyu Qin, Ana Buchadas et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Land‐use change is a major driver of biodiversity loss, affecting tropical forests and savannas at an unprecedented rate. To protect these ecosystems and their biodiversity, national conservation areas and international conservation funding have increased considerably in these regions. Understanding of how conservation funding allocation relates to dynamics in deforestation and conservation areas is crucial to identifying what mobilizes and distr…

  • What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot

    Open AccessChristian Levers, María Piquer-Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Commodity agriculture continues to spread into tropical dry forests globally, eroding their social-ecological integrity. Understanding where deforestation frontiers expand, and which impacts this process triggers, is thus important for sustainability planning. We reconstructed past land-system change (1985–2015) and simulated alternative land-system futures (2015–2045) for the Gran Chaco, a 1.1 million km 2 global deforestation hotspot with high …

  • Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests

    Open AccessMarie Pratzer, Álvaro Fernández‐llamazare et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 1References: 17

  • Enabling spaces for bridging scales: Scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research

    Open AccessCecilie Friis, Mónica Hernández‐Morcillo et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2023Cited by: 1References: 25

    To tackle the twenty-first-century challenges for sustainability, a deeper understanding of their complexity is needed. Hence, interdisciplinary human–environment research integrating knowledge, perspectives, and solutions across scales is crucial. Yet, questions of ‘scale’ and ‘scaling’ continue to challenge human–environment research. Despite substantial scholarly attention to scales, no unified definitions and understanding exist, causing conf…

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

    Open AccessFlorence Pendrill, Toby Gardner et al.ARTICLEScience2022

    Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it is well established that agriculture is a dominant driver of deforestation, rates and mechanisms remain disputed and often lack a clear evidence base. We synthesize the best available pantropical evidence to provide clarity on how agriculture drives deforestation. Alt…

  • Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics

    Open AccessMatthias Baumann, Ignacio Gasparri et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests often leads to major social-ecological trade-offs. Yet, despite ever-more detailed information on where deforestation occurs, how agriculture expands into forests remains unclear, which is hampered by a lack of spatially and temporally detailed reconstruction of agricultural expansion. Here, we developed and mapped a novel set of metrics that quantify agricultural frontier processes at …

  • Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands

    Open AccessAna Buchadas, Matthias Baumann et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 6References: 13

  • Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment

    Open AccessJohanna Buchner, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus

    Open AccessHe Yin, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019Cited by: 2References: 11

  • Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe

    Open AccessStephan Estel, Sabine Mader et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    The world's grasslands, both natural and managed, provide food and many non-provisioning ecosystem services. Although most grasslands today are used for livestock grazing or fodder production, little is known about the spatial patterns of grassland management intensity, especially at broad geographic scales. Using the European Union as a case study, we mapped mowing frequency as a key indicator of grassland management intensity. We used MODIS NDV…

  • The emergence of cannabis agriculture frontiers as environmental threats

    Open AccessVan Butsic, Jennifer Carah et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    On agricultural frontiers, minimal regulation and potential windfall profits drive opportunistic land use that often results in environmental damage. Cannabis, an increasingly decriminalized agricultural commodity in many places throughout the world, may now be creating new agricultural frontiers. We examined how cannabis frontiers have boomed in northern California, one of the United States' leading production areas. From 2012-2016 cannabis farm…

  • Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas

    Open AccessPhilippe Rufin, Christian Levers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina

    Open AccessMaría Piquer-Rodríguez, Matthias Baumann et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018Cited by: 2References: 61

  • Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco

    Yann Le Polain De Waroux, Matthias Baumann et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2018Cited by: 33References: 70

    Theories of frontier expansion in the last four decades have been mostly shaped by studies of state-driven smallholder colonization. Modern-day agricultural frontiers, however, are increasingly driven by capitalized corporate agriculture operating with little direct government intervention. The expansion of contemporary frontiers has been explained by the existence of spatially heterogeneous “abnormal” rents, which can be caused by cheap land and…